Chandrakala Padia is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi.Previously she was the Director of the Centre for Women Studies and Development, BHU and also Chairperson, UGC Standing Committee on Women Studies.She has also been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Toronto, McMaster, Chicago, Stockholm, Poland and others.She is the author of the much acclaimed book Liberty and Social Transformation: A Study in Bertrand Russell's Political Thought and editor of Feminism, Tradition and Modernity.
She has extensively published in national and international journals.